623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A surface trough in New York, associated with low pressure in Ontario Canada, lifted northeast across Vermont during the afternoon and evening of August 2nd.
Read the full account →Unseasonably warm weather resulted in dramatic snowmelt with rapid rises on rivers the last few days of March. In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours moved across the area on the 30th enhancing the runoff into the rivers.
Read the full account →A tropical air mass was in place over southern Vermont on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of July 11th...a warm and very moist airmass was draped across Vermont. In addition, a slow moving cold front entered Vermont from west to east during the afternoon.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of July 11th...a warm and very moist airmass was draped across Vermont. In addition, a slow moving cold front entered Vermont from west to east during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A strong storm system moved into the Great Lakes on Thursday (1/18/96) and then moved into Canada thereafter on Friday (1/19/96) and Saturday (1/20/96).
Read the full account →An area of low pressure tracked across New York and New England during the late night of Friday (June 26) and morning of Saturday (June 27). Heavy convective rains fell with 3 to 6 inches across northern portions of the county.
Read the full account →Southerly deep layer flow in the atmosphere provided a feed for abundant tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the northeast. Showers and thunderstorms developed on a daily basis in the summertime heat, and rainfall rates as high as two to three inches in an hour were…
Read the full account →A warm front moved across Vermont during the morning hours of May 29th, which lead to numerous thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging lightning and some isolated large hail and strong winds.
Read the full account →A warm front moved across Vermont during the morning hours of May 29th, which lead to numerous thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging lightning and some isolated large hail and strong winds.
Read the full account →A warm front moved across Vermont during the morning hours of May 29th, which lead to numerous thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging lightning and some isolated large hail and strong winds.
Read the full account →Warm moist air over the northeast provided the ingredients for heavy rainfall, and saturated ground from record May and June rainfall made the region vulnerable to flooding.
Read the full account →A storm system tracked across New England with continued periods of rainfall. With saturated soil conditions rivers and streams remained at or above flood stage. Areas along the New Haven River continued to flood, especially in Bristol.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from an above normal snowpack and daytime high temperatures in the 50s and 60s on the 25th and 26th, combined with rainfall of a half to one inch early on the 26th to set the stage for a significant flood event across the region.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms moved south along the western slopes of the Green Mountains from Franklin county Vermont into western Lamoille and eastern Chittenden counties during the early morning of Thursday, June 18th.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms moved south along the western slopes of the Green Mountains from Franklin county Vermont into western Lamoille and eastern Chittenden counties during the early morning of Thursday, June 18th.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across extreme southern Vermont interacted with a strong upper level disturbance from July 15 into early July 16. The result was a slow-moving low pressure area which formed over Virginia.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of July 11th...a warm and very moist airmass was draped across Vermont. In addition, a slow moving cold front entered Vermont from west to east during the afternoon.
Read the full account →On March 8th, a mild and very moist surface low that originated in the Gulf of Mexico moved across New England on the 8th. One to two inches of rain fell across the upper reaches of the Passumpsic River Valley in Vermont, as well as snow melt caused by temperatures in the 40s,…
Read the full account →On August 1st, an area of low pressure moved across central Vermont which provided the focus for thunderstorms during the late afternoon and night time hours.
Read the full account →A weak mid-atmospheric disturbance moving across a stationary surface boundary within an unstable, tropical air mass led to numerous showers and thunderstorms with torrential, flooding rains across portions of Vermont.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed in tropical moisture feeding along a stationary boundary. Record rainfall in May and June saturated the ground and elevated water levels in rivers and streams, making the region vulnerable to flooding.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall of 3 to 4 inches during the past 3-4 days had pre-saturated the soils across much of central Vermont. During the afternoon of July 1st, a series of heavy rain showers and thunderstorms moved across central VT delivering very heavy localized rainfall that caused…
Read the full account →A band of showers and thunderstorms developed in an east-west oriented line in the late afternoon and overnight hours across northern Vermont from Chittenden County into Lamoille and Washington Counties.
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